Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
stack: pop it in your plug-in folder or use as a free-standing stack (download some Metacard engines) and try to build a BSD or HP9K700 standalones. May prove more trouble than it's worth! Love, Richmond. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Having equipped myself with a LinuxPPC engine for Metacard I decided to try to build a LinuxPPC standalone with Metacard 4 . . . No joy whatsoever on a Mac as the standalone builder does not recognise the LinuxPPC engine 'mc' as such, Having already built a BSD standalone on Ubuntu I

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 18/01/2010 09:08, Shao Sean wrote: I find it funny that a single person (Dr. Scott Raney) was able to support all the different platforms, yet the team at RunRev cannot.. (I understand their business reasoning(s), just find it amusing ;) -

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Luis
Hiya, Doesn't a team consist of 'single' people? Pass the salt... Cheers, Luis. On 18 Jan 2010, at 12:27, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 18/01/2010 09:08, Shao Sean wrote: I find it funny that a single person (Dr. Scott Raney) was able to support all the different platforms, yet the team

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 18/01/2010 15:35, Luis wrote: Hiya, Doesn't a team consist of 'single' people? Pass the salt... Have you ever heard of Corporate Identity ? Cheers, Luis. On 18 Jan 2010, at 12:27, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 18/01/2010 09:08, Shao Sean wrote: I find it funny that a single person

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
stephen barncard wrote: The REV of today is a lot more complex than previous years. Also it's important to note in this comparison the fact that Metacard went out of business. While it's technically correct that MetaCard Corp. is no longer in business, to avoid newcomers misinterpreting the

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Luis
No, when's that out? On 18 Jan 2010, at 15:07, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 18/01/2010 15:35, Luis wrote: Hiya, Doesn't a team consist of 'single' people? Pass the salt... Have you ever heard of Corporate Identity ? Cheers, Luis. On 18 Jan 2010, at 12:27, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: RunRev's 'abandonment' of less popular platforms may have little to do with business as such, and more to do with the changing dynamic of siingle person to team. With all due respect, this describes the relationship between a company's size and its mission in terms that are

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Michael Kann
lines is If you don't like the show, get your own. --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: From: Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com Subject: Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ? To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Date: Monday

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Mikey
Jumping back in late - back in THE DAY a 9000/700 version would have been the bomb for me. We still run our Enterprise software on this platform, but, I'm much, much more excited about having it on Linux, and even more so about the pdf print and web plugins. NOW GIVE ME A REPORT WRITER! --

RE: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Jumping back in late - back in THE DAY a 9000/700 version would have been the bomb for me. We still run our Enterprise software on this platform, but, I'm much, much more excited about having it on Linux, and even more so about the pdf print and web plugins. NOW GIVE ME A REPORT

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Andre Garzia
Theres also Quartam Reports which rocks! check it out at http://www.runrev.com/products/related-software/quartam-reports :D On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: Jumping back in late - back in THE DAY a 9000/700 version would have been the

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Talluto
On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: stephen barncard wrote: The REV of today is a lot more complex than previous years. Also it's important to note in this comparison the fact that Metacard went out of business. While it's technically correct that MetaCard Corp. is no longer

RE: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Lynn Fredricks
So while it's true that MetaCard Corp. went out of business, may we all go out of business as well as he did. :) This reminds me of my last conversation I had with Dr. Raney. We were discussing his sale to Rev when he told me about his exit strategy. In my more naive state of

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Lynn Fredricks wrote: For those who know what Im talking about - remember.. mTropolis? ;-) What I remember about mTropolis was that at the trade shows they acted like debutantes fresh out of finishing school: at $5,000 a license, they gave a quick look at your watch and your shoes before

BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Built Metacard 4 on my Ubuntu Box (P4, 1.42 GHZ, 512 MB, Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS) using J. Landman Gay's magic stack available at RevOnline. Downloaded the BSD and HP9K700 engines from http://www.hot.com.my/metacard/ saved them in a subdirectory inside my MC 4 directory; expanded their contents

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Mikey
Wait - is that HP 9000 series 700? Is that what the HP9k700 means? On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:32, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Built Metacard 4 on my Ubuntu Box (P4, 1.42 GHZ, 512 MB, Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS) using J. Landman Gay's magic stack available at RevOnline.

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 17/01/2010 18:37, Mikey wrote: Wait - is that HP 9000 series 700? Is that what the HP9k700 means? As far as I know, yes. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 17/01/2010 18:37, Mikey wrote: Wait - is that HP 9000 series 700? Is that what the HP9k700 means? This is worth reading: MetaCard 2.5 is supported on 68K and PPC Macintosh systems running MacOS 7.1 through 9.X, with a separate Carbon engine for use with Mac OS X. The Win32 engine

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Richmond wrote: Nine popular UNIX/X11 platforms are also supported: Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86, DEC Alpha, SGI IRIS, HP-9000/700, IBM RS/6000, SCO ODT, BSD UNIX, Linux Intel, and LinuxPPC. most of those options have become Boojums with RunRev; i.e. they have softly and silently vanished

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Personally, I'm extremely 'turned on' by this bit: Nine popular UNIX/X11 platforms are also supported: Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86, DEC Alpha, SGI IRIS, HP-9000/700, IBM RS/6000, SCO ODT, BSD UNIX, Linux Intel, and LinuxPPC. most of those options have become

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 17/01/2010 20:12, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Personally, I'm extremely 'turned on' by this bit: Nine popular UNIX/X11 platforms are also supported: Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86, DEC Alpha, SGI IRIS, HP-9000/700, IBM RS/6000, SCO ODT, BSD UNIX, Linux Intel, and

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Bruce Robertson
On Jan 17, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I myself, have a large number of computers rotting in my attic in Scotland (about 5 Performa 52xx Macs) which are perfectly serviceable, except for the fact that it would be JOLLY NICE to leverage features implemented in RunRevs 3.5

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: So, I have written directly to RunRev (see earlier posting) to ask if they would be so kind as to issue 2.2.1 and engines with licence numbers to any Studio and Enterprise owners who might be interested; You will receive an answer, but it will probably take some

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 17/01/2010 21:16, Bruce Robertson wrote: On Jan 17, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I myself, have a large number of computers rotting in my attic in Scotland (about 5 Performa 52xx Macs) which are perfectly serviceable, except for the fact that it would be JOLLY NICE to

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 17/01/2010 21:31, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: So, I have written directly to RunRev (see earlier posting) to ask if they would be so kind as to issue 2.2.1 and engines with licence numbers to any Studio and Enterprise owners who might be interested; You will receive

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Sunday, January 17, 2010, 11:33:34 AM, you wrote: If you come to my house and ask me for the 3 chairs ...for Captain Spaulding, no doubt... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 17/01/2010 22:12, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Sunday, January 17, 2010, 11:33:34 AM, you wrote: If you come to my house and ask me for the 3 chairs ...for Captain Spaulding, no doubt... I'm sorry I don't understand the reference; do tell!

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Sunday, January 17, 2010, 12:34:21 PM, you wrote: I'm sorry I don't understand the reference; do tell! This is the best I can come up with at the moment: http://www.filmsite.org/anim2.html -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I have created a poll about currently unsupported operating systems in the feature requests section of the RunRev forum. http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4717p=20927 -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Hershel Fisch
Oo, oo, I'd really appreciate a bsd builder. Thanks, Hershel On 1/17/10 1:12 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Personally, I'm extremely 'turned on' by this bit: Nine popular UNIX/X11 platforms are also supported: Solaris SPARC, Solaris x86,

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Hershel Fisch
On which version's will this work? Hershel On 1/17/10 11:32 AM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Built Metacard 4 on my Ubuntu Box (P4, 1.42 GHZ, 512 MB, Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS) using J. Landman Gay's magic stack available at RevOnline. Downloaded the BSD and HP9K700

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Mark Talluto
On Jan 17, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Mind you . . . if you could point me to a Linux PPC engine for Metacard I could start fooling around now. Hi Richmond, You can access my repository of MetaCard files at: http://www.canelasoftware.com/mc/metacard23/index.html

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 18/01/2010 07:22, Mark Talluto wrote: On Jan 17, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Mind you . . . if you could point me to a Linux PPC engine for Metacard I could start fooling around now. Hi Richmond, You can access my repository of MetaCard files at:

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Shao Sean
I find it funny that a single person (Dr. Scott Raney) was able to support all the different platforms, yet the team at RunRev cannot.. (I understand their business reasoning(s), just find it amusing ;) ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread stephen barncard
I don't think that assessment is funny or fair. The REV of today is a lot more complex than previous years. Also it's important to note in this comparison the fact that Metacard went out of business. Keeping parity among the currently supported platforms is gotta be intense. I am just happy they

Re: BSD and HP9K700 standalones . . . ?

2010-01-17 Thread Shao Sean
that Metacard went out of business. umm.. Rev bought them, not quite the same.. I don't think that assessment is funny or fair. But I do.. ;-P It was the same thing when REALSoftware (actually FYI Software at the time) bought REALbasic (CrossBasic at them time).. It was originally being